Natalie was born in the U.S.A (Boulder Colorado), but went to school in the U.S., New Zealand, the U.K. and Australia. After completing high school (in Canberra), she went ´walkabout´ - spending several years on a Prawn Trawler, travelling with a circus, and helping run a small silvicultural contracting business.  She then started University at ANU – to find that she thoroughly enjoyed economics, academia and research.

Nowadays, Natalie is perhaps best described as an economist with a keen interest in the environmental and social/distributional issues associated with economic growth - with  extensive experience in a variety of non-market valuation techniques.  What distinguishes her from many other economists, is her track record of collaborative cross-disciplinary research using models that combine economic, environmental and social variables to explore interactions between socio-economic and ecological systems.   She has published widely in both national and international forums and has supervised many (mostly multidisciplinary) research students for their honours, masters and PhDs.   

Interests

Research

• Environmental economics Non-market valuation techniques Natural resource economics Natural resource management Regional economics Indigenous economies Tourism economics

Experience

• 2019 to present - Adjunct Professor, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2017 to 2019 - Professorial Research Fellow, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2011 to 2017 - Professor of Economics and Tropical Leader, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2008 to 2011 - Associate Professor of Economics, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2003 to 2008 - Senior Lecturer in Economics, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2000 to 2003 - Data Analyst and Researcher, CSIRO - Sustainabile Ecosystems (Townsville)
• 1992 to 2000 - Economics Lecturer, University of Canberra
• 1990 to 1992 - Economics Tutor, James Cook University (Townsville)

Research Disciplines

• Applied Economics (1402)
• Environmental Science and Management (0502)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Economic Framework (9199)
• Environmental and Natural Resource Evaluation (9606)
• Ecosystem Assessment and Management (9605)

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Journal Articles

• Fernandez C, Stoeckl N and Welters R (in press) The cost of doing nothing in the face of climate change: a case study, using the life satisfaction approach to value the tangible and intangible costs of flooding in the Philippines. Climate and Development Journal,
• Delisle A, Kiatkoski Kim M, Stoeckl N, Watkin Lui F and Marsh H (2018) The socio-cultural benefits and costs of the traditional hunting of dugongs Dugong dugon and green turtles Chelonia mydas in Torres Strait, Australia. Oryx, 52 (2). pp. 250-261
• Esparon M, Farr M, Larson S and Stoeckl N (2018) Social values and growth and their implications for ecosystem services in the long-run. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 24 (3). pp. 327-346
• Farr M and Stoeckl N (2018) Overoptimism and the undervaluation of ecosystem services: a case-study of recreational fishing in Townsville, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. Ecosystem Services, 31 (Part C). pp. 433-444
• Jarvis D, Stoeckl N, Addison J, Larson S, Hill R, Pert P and Watkin Lui F (2018) Are Indigenous land and sea management programs a pathway to Indigenous economic independence? The Rangeland Journal, 40 (4). pp. 415-429
• Jarvis D, Stoeckl N, Hill R and Pert P (2018) Indigenous land and sea management programs: can they promote regional development and help "close the (income) gap"? Australian Journal of Social Issues, 53 (3). pp. 283-303
• Larson S, Stoeckl N, Jarvis D, Addison J, Prior S and Esparon M (in press) Using measures of wellbeing for impact evaluation: proof of concept developed with an Indigenous community undertaking land management programs in northern Australia. Ambio,
• Li Q, Stoeckl N, King D and Gyuris E (2018) Using both objective and subjective indicators to investigate the impacts of coal mining on wellbeing of host communities: a case-study in Shanxi Province, China. Social Indicators Research, 137 (3). pp. 895-921
• Stoeckl N, Hicks C, Farr M, Grainger D, Esparon M, Thomas J and Larson S (2018) The crowding out of complex social goods. Ecological Economics, 144. pp. 65-72
• Wei F, Costanza R, Dai Q, Stoeckl N, Gu X, Farber S, Nie Y, Kubiszewski I, Hu Y, Swaisgood R, Yang X, Bruford M, Chen Y, Voinov A, Qi D, Owen M, Yan L, Kenny D, Zhang Z, Hou R, Jiang S, Liu H, Zhan X, Zhang L, Yang B, Zhao L, Zheng X, Zhou W, Wen Y, Gao H and Zhang W (2018) The value of ecosystem services from giant panda reserves. Current Biology, 28 (13). pp. 2174-2180
• Diedrich A, Stoeckl N, Gurney G, Esparon M and Pollnac R (2017) Social capital as a key determinant of perceived benefits of community-based marine protected areas. Conservation Biology, 31 (2). pp. 311-321

Book Chapters

• Stoeckl N, Larson S, Thomas J, Hicks C, Pascoe S and Marsh H (2018) Socioeconomic impacts of changes to marine fisheries and aquaculture that are brought about through climate change. In: Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries and Aquaculture: A Global Analysis. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, UK, pp. 925-958

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 113+ research outputs authored by Prof Natalie Stoeckl from 1995 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• From Rural to Digital: A Case Study of Mobile Money in Rural Uganda (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• People Building Stronger Regions: an Empirical Investigation into the Determinants of Migration (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Coal mining and human wellbeing: a case-study in Shanxi, China (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The contribution of economic, social and environmental factors to life and tourist satisfaction (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Domains and indicators of life satisfaction: case studies in Costa Rica and Northern Australia (2016, Masters , Primary Advisor)
• Marine conservation finance: strategies and finance mechanisms to improve the amount and efficacy of investment into marine conservation (2017, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Methods for determining how much to spend on flood prevention: an empirical case study in the Philippines (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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